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Spectrum of Emotions SPECTRUM OF EMOTIONS From the evolution to the revision of the modern psychiatry and psychology Master Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the Degree Master Business Administration in MBA Study Program Submitted to Dr. Christian Weismayer Lukas Mach 1702504 Vienna, 07.01.2020 II Affidavit I hereby affirm that this Master’s Thesis represents my own written work and that I have used no sources and aids other than those indicated. All passages quoted from publications or paraphrased from these sources are properly cited and attributed. The thesis was not submitted in the same or in a substantially similar version, not even partially, to another examination board and was not published elsewhere. Date Signature III 4 Abstract The thesis describes the phenomenon of “emotions” from a different perspective. The objective of the thesis is to present different theories and research about emotions and examine how the phenomenon has changed through the centuries. For this reason, the title of the thesis also includes “evolutionary.” The different schools and different approaches have tried to define emotions and determine how to classify them. The thesis builds a connection among the most three most important persons in the psychology: Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Stanislav Grof. It shows how these persons are connected in terms of their work, mainly related to the unconscious, and it also includes other important persons in the field of psychology such as Charles Darwin, Karl Jaspers, Robert Plutchik and Paul Ekman. The phenomena of consciousness, the unconscious and suppressed memories constitute important parts in the thesis, offering an insight into the problematic as well as self-healing potential of the human body. Finally, the last part of the thesis is devoted to transpersonal psychology, which has been omitted or rejected by modern psychiatry and psychology for no specific reason. The work also connects the emotional theories to empirical work like in marketing or advertising. The conclusion of the thesis also suggests how theories about emotions can be linked to empirical world, and used in marketing or advertising. 5 Acknowledgements I would like to thank you Dr. Christian Weismayer for his remarks, support and time devoted to my thesis. Besides, I would like to address my gratitude to my whole family in Letohrad, Czech Republic for their understanding, patience and support when writing the thesis. 6 Table of Contents Affidavit .................................................................................................................................................. III Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. 6 Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 10 1. Definition of emotions .................................................................................................................. 11 1.1. What are emotions? .............................................................................................................. 11 1.2. Various definitions of emotions ............................................................................................ 12 1.3. Distinguishing between emotions versus moods .................................................................. 13 2. Categorisation of feelings .............................................................................................................. 16 2.1. Max Scheler and his categorization of feelings ..................................................................... 16 2.2. Karl Jaspers and his categorisation of feelings ...................................................................... 18 2.3. The other classification of feelings ........................................................................................ 20 2.4. Different approaches to the functionality of emotions ........................................................ 21 2.5. Animal versus human emotions ................................................................................................. 23 3. Emotions and the human brain ..................................................................................................... 25 3.1. Evolution: Shaping of the brain ............................................................................................. 25 3.2. Importance of the amygdala ................................................................................................. 26 3.3. Other important parts of the limbic system .......................................................................... 28 4. The early era of research on emotions ......................................................................................... 32 4.1. Socrates and Aristotle ........................................................................................................... 32 4.2. Charles Darwin and his contributions to emotions ............................................................... 33 5. The 20th century: A new era for research on emotions................................................................ 36 5.1. Sigmund Freud versus the Id, Ego and Superego .................................................................. 36 5.1.1. Freud’s psychosexual stages of development ............................................................... 39 5.1.2. Criticism of Freud’s psychosexual stages of development ............................................ 41 5.2. Carl Gustav Jung and his Contribution to Emotions ................................................................... 42 6. Theories of emotions ..................................................................................................................... 45 6.1. Evolutionary theory of emotion ............................................................................................ 45 7 6.1.1. Charles Darwin .............................................................................................................. 45 6.1.2. Robert Plutchik .............................................................................................................. 46 6.2. Physiological theories of emotions ....................................................................................... 48 6.2.1. The James-Lange theory ................................................................................................ 48 6.2.2. The Cannon-Bard theory ............................................................................................... 49 6.3. Two -factor theory of emotions ............................................................................................ 50 6.4. Behaviouristic theory of emotions ........................................................................................ 54 6.5. Multidimensional theories .................................................................................................... 57 6.6. Constructionist theory ........................................................................................................... 59 6.7. Cognitive appraisal theory ..................................................................................................... 61 7. Revision of the modern psychology and psychiatry according to Stanislav Grof ......................... 65 7.1. Stanislav Grof and research into non-ordinary consciousness ............................................. 65 7.2. LSD as a therapeutical tool .................................................................................................... 66 7.3. Grof and LSD psychotherapy ................................................................................................. 68 7.4. Grof’s cartography of the human psyche .............................................................................. 69 7.5. COEX systems ........................................................................................................................ 70 7.6. Basic perinatal matrices (BPMs) ............................................................................................ 71 7.6.1. First basic perinatal matrix: BMP I (primal union with the mother) ............................. 71 7.6.2. Second perinatal matrix: BMP II. (cosmic engulfment and no exit or hell)................... 72 7.6.3. Third perinatal matrix: BPM III. (the death-rebirth struggle) ........................................ 72 7.6.4. The fourth perinatal matrix BPM IV (the death-rebirth experience) ............................ 73 7.7. Transpersonal domain of the psyche ......................................................................................... 74 Results ................................................................................................................................................... 78 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 83 Limitations ............................................................................................................................................
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